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I don’t know where I first saw this, so I don’t know who to credit for it, but it was one of those things I can’t believe I never thought of!

Cut open an empty toilet paper roll & use it to keep your wrapping paper (whatever the paper) from unrolling. This works best laying down since it loosened a little & fell to the bottom of this roll I had standing up in the closet. That would be easy to fix with a bit of tape or a rubber band. Either way, the roll protects the paper.

Today’s project was short & sweet. I had found the idea of making a hanging laundry hamper out of a pillowcase on Pinterest a few weeks ago, & today I finally rummaged around & found a suitable old pillowcase.

Martha used a 14in embroidery hoop to hold hers open, but I didn’t have that. What I did have was a big, boxy old wire hanger. So I used a pair of pliers to wrestle the top of the hanger open, made a snip in the pillowcase, near the inside top of the “back” side, then ran the hanger through the pillowcase’s hem.

The only problem was the seamed side was sewn through, so I had to make a couple of extra clips, one on each side of the seam on the inside again, then threaded the wire through those two holes. If I had my sewing machine with me, I would have maybe done a buttonhole for the slits, but I don’t know if I could have done one without sewing through both layers of the casing. Some sort of finishing would be nice though, so I might go back to it with some fabric glue or something.

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